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This Is a Day of Stillness and Peace

by Rev. Holly M. Onorato, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer me.” (W-pI.291.2:1)

As they usually do, this lesson came at the perfect time. I soaked up every word as I drank my black coffee with my trusty journal nearby.

I love starting my day like this, in quiet solitude, before the sun comes up and the day kicks off. For me, it’s a time for self-reflection and pondering the previous day, the daily workbook lesson, and other spiritual texts. When I’m not able to spend mornings like this, I feel it all day.

Like you, some lessons resonate more than others. This was one such lesson, given the state of the world right now. Political upheaval, social divide, violence in schools, and other assorted atrocities, leave us feeling hollow, hopeless, and extremely powerless.

Remembering that we have the tools to make every day a day of stillness and peace, despite external events is comforting, though far from easy. It begins with self-awareness and compassion, for ourselves as well as others. Even those who are lashing out in violent ways, all of which are completely out of our control. All we can do is send Love, knowing that our divine energy is powerful enough to be received, even though it may not be welcomed. We do it anyway, for our spiritual well-being and because it’s in our nature to forgive and to LOVE.

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Dream of Darkness

by Rev. Lee Catalano, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

The ego is dreaming a dream of darkness. The world I see offers me nothing that I want, because it is a dream of darkness being projected by an insane mind.

All of the surface experience of the mind has an enormous ego undercurrent. The ego’s game is to see itself unfairly treated that it may justify its attacks. This can only occur between two separate things. So the ego goes about making up stories about a (dark) dream character named “Lee.” She’s tossed about and missed-treated, she is indeed a victim of the world. That is the whole entire purpose of her “existence.” The ego has savage rage and anger and it is looking to experience being attacked in order that it may savagely attack back.

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Unholy Attachments: Letting Go to Receive

by Rev. Maureen Yarbrough, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

In this fast-paced world of hopping from one activity to another and just not stopping or slowing down from morning to night, it’s easy to lose sight of the Light and be less than pleasant with those closest to us — those “special” relationships in our lives of significant others and immediate family, close friends, etc. Geeze, I have been guilty of doing so time after time in my journey.

It was a long process to elevate from blaming others, to eventually seeing and realizing that I am, quite literally, the cause of my own problems and not a one have anything at all to do with anyone else. I simply need to unplug and practice some realignment and self-love. Keep in mind that there is no guilt in having special relationships — this world is made as the playground for them. I have felt that in this realm, here, I am always training in forgiveness. At first it was torturous, but as time goes on, it is much less so…though ‘it” can only occur in an instant! Ha! Go figure.

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I’d Rather Be the Light than Be Right!

by Rev. Vicki Evans, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

When I awakened this week, I realized I needed to take a step back and be re-awakened to the observation that I feel like some of the peace I am striving to maintain has taken flight and been replaced by some irritation. I find that I am slipping back into needing to be right more than choosing peace! My identity sometimes gets caught up in needing to prove my point, but I want to live my true self and go back to my true Identity as Love and Light.

This fact had me running back to my Pathways of Light teachings in the course 905: Special Relationships vs. Holy Relationships. When I opened my notebook, I was led to page 3, paragraph 2 where it stated: “Either we come from oneness of Love as an extension of Love, or we come from the belief in separation – the ego. Specialness is not the real truth.” 

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Giving Up My Rights

by Rev. Nicole Witt, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Before I started applying A Course in Miracles to my life, I thought that I was right. Right about my opinions, right about my judgments, right in what I thought should or should not happen. I bet you have heard the phrase, “Do you want to be happy or do you want to be right?” I believed they were the same thing for a very long time. It was almost like my “rightness” proved that I was alright, like I was arguing for my right to exist.

Even the most inconsequential topic was fodder for an argument, a proving I was right and defending myself. Any little time I could say “you’re wrong, I’m right,” I was ready to pounce on it.

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Do I Belong?

by Rev. Ashley Rose Legrand, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

What if the things that we thought made us strange, different, outcasts or “weird,” were really the things that make us fascinatingly beautiful and incredible? The things that give us our wings, allowing us to soar to new levels ­— a celestial, Heavenly level where there is only good, only mercy, only truth; an infinite creation of Love; an infinite field of beauty beyond time and space, where there is no guilt, no pain, no turmoil, only radical, unending, soul-penetrating, Love.

A fiery adoration of our own divine muse, moving us to a higher dimension of infinite possibility and wisdom. A land where nothing is impossible. Where no good thing is withheld. Where complete fulfillment is not only possible but an inevitability. A natural result of developing and using our God-given gifts and talents in the most useful and loving way, to serve the highest good. Here happiness is not just a choice but a given, as natural and as ‘right’ as breathing.

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Reality and Duality

by Rev. Gina Lucia, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

In this seeming world of chaos and uncertainty, we always seem to reach out to the Father, our Guides, the Angels, each other, seeking connection and support, especially when duality shadows our perceptions. Let us be reminded of the simple fact that God is with us wherever we go. “There is no time, no place, no state where God is absent. There is nothing to be feared.” (T-29.I.1:1-2)

Ego is always chattering, pulling us back. Illusions reign in such a shadowy landscape. How do we find our truth? Is there truth in some illusions? Dreams are dreams. But does it mean some dreams are kept, and others, wakened from? “The choice is not between which dreams to keep, but only if you want to live in dreams, or to awaken from them.” (T-29. IV.1:5)

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